GERIATRIC FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY - Principles and Practice (Hardcover)

Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of important topics in the intersection of geriatric psychiatry, medicine, clinical neuroscience, forensic psychiatry, and law. It will speak to a broad audience among varied fields, including clinical and forensic psychiatry and mental health professionals, geriatricians and internists, attorneys and courts, regulators, and other professionals working with the older population. Topics addressed in this text, applied to the geriatric population, include clinical forensic evaluation, regulations and laws, civil commitment, different forms of capacity, guardianship, patient rights, medical-legal issues related to treatment, long term care and telemedicine, risk management, patient safety and error reduction, elder driving, sociopathy and aggression, offenders and the adjudication process, criminal evaluations, corrections, ethics, culture, cognitive impairment, substance abuse, trauma, older professionals, high risk behavior, and forensic mental health training and research. Understanding the relationship between clinical issues, laws and regulations, and managing risk and improving safety, will help to serve the growing older population.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2018
Editors:	Jacob Holzer • Robert Kohn (Director, Brown University Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship) • James Ellison • Patricia Recupero (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry)
Dimensions:	284 x 223 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-937465-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Criminal or forensic psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Forensic medicine Promotions
LSN:	0-19-937465-1
Barcode:	9780199374656

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